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How to install rar

Rar is compressing tool, many of us have use it on windows named ” WinRar”.

Here, i’ll tell you how to install on linux.

If you are using RHEL/CentOS, you can simple install it through “yum”

rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

yum install rar

If you are using LinuxMint, Ubuntu, UbuntuME, run the following command;

apt-get install rar

or

aptitude install rar

You can try different switches, try ;

rar  e      ” Extract the data from .rar archive”

rar –help

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